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The Music Trade Review
APRIL 17, 1926
The Technical Department—Continued from page 40)
Brambach Factory Chosen as Example
of Safety Work by New York Labor Dept.
Official Films Made in New Factory of the Brambach Piano Co. to Be Used as Demonstrations
of What Proper Safety Work for Employes Should Be in Factory Practice
A COMPLIMENT of a high order was re- Here automatic machines, many with heads and
^^ ceived recently by the Brambach Piano moving parts, necessitate the use of belting.
Co., New York, maker of Brambach baby grand In the Brambach factory the entire belting is
pianos, when a request was made by the De- enclosed with steel screenings, covering the en-
partment of Labor of New York State for per- tire lengths from the central power plant to the
mission to use the Brambach plant as a model cutting heads. This innovation in scientific
for a motion picture, demonstrating safety work- precautionary measures is but one of the many
in factories. This department is in the midst features carried out throughout the whole of
of a campaign to promote safety for workers 'the new Brambach factory making for better
in manufacturing industries and is receiving the production at a minimum of hazard. The fac-
First" one step further and making it read
"Safety Always" in the new Brambach factory.
The letter is from Leland E. Cofer, director of
the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene of New York
State, and is as follows: "In connection with
the production of moving pictures illustrating
the common accident hazards in industry to-
gether with methods of prevention, the Bureau
of Industrial Hygiene in the New York State
Department of Labor must of necessity confine
the production of such moving pictures to those
plants which possess as nearly as possible ideal
conditions. On this account your factory was
selected by Safety Inspectors Robert Northrup
and Herbert Reid for the purpose above out-
lined.
"This letter has a twofold object: first, to
express the appreciation of your courtesy and
public spirit in aiding this work of accident pre-
vention by lending your plant which you have
done, and to credit you, as is your due, with hav-
ing a plant wherein the physical and mechanical
cond'tions are conducive to safety in indus-
try."
Wood Utilization to Be
Discussed on April 28
Special Conference to Be Held in Washington
for the Purpose of Laying Down a Definite
Program for the Entire Country.
Above — State Depart-
ment of Labor Taking
Moving Pictures in the
Brambach Plant—Let-
ter From State Depart-
ment
enthusiastic• co-operation of workers and execu-
tives everywhere.
After a comprehensive study of factory and
working conditions throughout the entire
State, Safety Inspectors Robert Northrup and
Herbert Reid chose the Brambach factory, at
609 West Fifty-first street, as a splendid example
of the modern factory. In the accompanying
photograph Mr. Northrup, of the Department
of Labor, will be seen "shooting" a motion pic-
ture of one Brambach sanding machine. It
will be noted that the room is free of over-
head shafting and belt-driven machinery, one
of the aims of the safety movement.
The sanding machine pictured has three
drums, each one operated by an individual three-
horse-power motor—directly connected; two of
these motors are visible on the near side and
one on the far side. Each machine stops and
starts with a push button, removing all the
dangers of the old-fashioned loose pulley, fre-
quently the cause of many accidents.
The entire factory is similarly equipped. An
innovation of particular interest to the produc-
lion executive exists in the action department.
tory is of modern fireproof construction from
top to bottom and enjoys one of the lowest fire
insurance rates ever given.
The moving picture, so recently completed,
will form the "piece de resistance" of the
State-wide campaign conducted by New York
and sponsored by the Department of Labor for
better safety conditions in factories. Plans
call for serial showings throughout the State
and theatres in industrial centers and sections
where working men live will exhibit the reels.
Pre-showings of this feature picture have already
caused much favorable comment not only for
the spirit and idea behind the campaign but also
for the model factory demonstrating modern
safety methods. These congratulatory expres-
sions are but in keeping with the many highly
nattering words of praise already heaped upon
the executives of the Brambach factory from
over the entire country upon completion and
inspection of the new building. It was espe-
cially gratifying to Mark P. Campbell, president
of the Brambach Piano Co., to receive the fol-
lowing letter, showing how well he had suc-
ceeded in carrying out the old slogan "Safety
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 5.—Plans arc nearing
completion for the coming meeting of the
National Committee of Wood Utilization to be
held here on April 28. A definite program of
procedure throughout the nation and the ap-
pointment of sub-committees to handle the
various projects under consideration will be
worked out at this meeting of the National Com-
mittee of Wood Utilization, which is an official
group organized in the Department of Com-
merce at the direction of President Coolidge.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover is its chairman
and Colonel W. B. Greeley, Forester of the
United States, is the vice-chairman.
Axel H. Oxholm, director of the National
Committee on Wood Utilization, which includes
in its membership^ producers, distributors and
consumers of wood and its products, says that
on an average only 25 to 35 per cent of the
standing trees of our forest are at the present
being utilized.
The National Committee plans to develop a
program which will promote in the manufactur-
ing industry more extensive wood utilization,
especially of the lower grade stock. Reduced
saw kerf, prevention of stain, wood preservation,
more efficient logging methods, utilization of
small logs, possibility of using a greater variety
of species for pulp manufacture and chemical
utilization will be among the measures advo-
cated. One tree will be made to serve the pur-
pose of two and the consumer will be receiving
a better value for his money. It is the hope
of the committee that through its efforts a more
uniform demand for all grades of lumber will
be stimulated. This in turn will promote closer
utilization, enabling the manufacturer to dis-
tribute his cost with greater accuracy.
T. L. Lutkins Recovering
News of the speedy convalescence of Ted L.
Lutkins, Jr., of T. L. Lutkins, Inc., New York,
who has been seriously ill at his home in West-
chester County for several weeks, was given out
by an executive of the Lutkins house this week.
Mr. Lutkins, who returned early in March from
an extensive trip through the Middle West call-
ing on player action and organ manufacturers,
contracted double pneumonia shortly after his
arrival in New York, tie has been troubled
with pleurisy somewhat since his recovery and
is not expected to return to his office at 40
Spruce street, New York, for ten days or so.